Richard, I've heard all the stories from that era....hard times followed by the great depression followed by world war II...tough times that created tough men and women. She wasn't totally devastated by Oklahoma City and September 11th...she'd seen it before (lost friends at Pearl Harbor). She knew what Americans had to do, just as her generation did six decades ago.
How tough is this sweet little 5'0"-110 lb southern lady? She once broke her nose at recess and finished her schoolwork before WALKING home with her sisters...over a mile!
Granny isn't afraid of much either....as the oldest daughter in her family, she was used to going for help late at night (when someone was sick, her mom having a baby, etc)...to her aunts and uncles house through the woods...passed a graveyard (and there were no streetlights or flashlights in the 1920's).
My Granny says her family bought their first radio when my dad was 5 or 6 years old (1938 or 39); and their first black and white television in the late 1940's. She still remembers the first airplane she ever saw fly overhead....the first plane she ever saw land here in Douglas County, and was just as thrilled by it as I am by the internet.
Granny remembers going to church, to town, and to visit relatives on horseback and in a horse and wagon; remembers her family's first car...a 1923 Ford purchased in 1927 for the whopping price of $50 bucks
Granny did get a thrill today....the mayor of Douglasville Mickey Thompson sent her a birthday card. She's been on the phone telling her friends and relatives ever since it arrived
Thanks so much for all the kind words everyone.
God Bless You
Perry
Granny and her husband divorced when dad was just a toddler (during the great depression), and I only met him once in my life....when I was a baby 
